First off, I went on exchanges with the zone leaders, seeing how my companion is the district leader (and the zone leaders are in our district). I got to the zone leaders apartment, and I looked at him and said, "Elder B? I don't think I'm ready." He said, "Ready for what?" I gave him the most serious look and said, "I just don't think I'm ready to go zone leader. I've only been out for 5 months..." He cracked up. But seriously, exchanges were awesome! We had a full day of teaching, and I learned a lot. We gave a blessing to somebody in the ICU, and we weren't able to touch them, so we gave a priesthood blessing without touching them.
We visited a less-active family this week that we saw last week. They have made a lot of progress, even just over the last week. They've had family scripture study almost every night, and we challenged them to have family prayer every night. The daughter has been marking her scriptures like none other. She is just soaking in the personal revelation! Now we just need to get them all back to church.
I got a new set of scriptures this week! It is so cool to look back at my old scriptures as I transfer some notes and markings over. My old scriptures are old, at least to me. They have 11 years of studies in them, and I can tell who I was then and who I am now just by what I marked in those scriptures. I'm ready to begin a new journey with these scriptures, especially in my mission. I hope to have them full of notes by the end of these two years.
I recently saw a video the Church put out with the 2013 edition of the scriptures. It is called Scriptures Legacy. If you haven't seen it yet, I highly recommend watching it. It made me think about the sacrifices that were made to preserve the scriptures, and WHY people sacrificed their lives just to preserve these records. People used to risk all that they had just to get their hands on a copy of the written word of God in their language, and continued to risk even after they had them. Martyrs were made. Satan did everything in his power to stop people from knowing the truth. But truth has been restored, and we are blessed today to have scriptures so readily available, that all we have to do is go to our personal library or pull out our tablet or smartphone. Don't take the scriptures for granted. "Angels speak by the power of the Holy Ghost; wherefore, they speak the words of Christ. Wherefore, I said unto you, feast upon the words of Christ; for behold, the words of Christ will tell you all things what ye should do." (2 Nephi 32: 3)
My challenge to you this week is to read every day from the written word of God. Make it a priority. Don't let anything get in the way between you and your study of the scriptures. Until next week, peace be unto you.
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The Lord's Soldier,
Elder Jacob C. Tibbitts
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